Arlette Sophie Miller

MILLER, ARLETTE SOPHIE GOLDMUNTZ Arlette Miller, age 74, of New Haven, died Sept. 3 at home, following a long illness. Born in Antwerp, Belgium on Aug. 7, 1937, she was the daughter of the late Marcel and Rita Goldmuntz. She and her parents fled Belgium by car during the Nazi invasion of May, 1940, and, after a year of traveling and hiding in France secured passage in March 1941 on the Serpa Pinto, a passenger ship bound from Lisbon to New York. Raised in New York City and Riverdale, NY, she was a 1955 graduate of The Fieldstone School and in 1959, of Brandeis University. She received a degree in Occupational Therapy from Columbia University. On March 25, 1962, she married I. George Miller, Jr. than a medical student at Harvard University, now the John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at Yale University. They have three children. Throughout the 1970's, she worked independently as a potter at Bittersweet Farm in Branford, and as an occuptaional therapist at the yale Psychiatric Institute. In 1983, she joined Press/Cuozzo Realtors in New Haven. She loved art, food, travel, her tennis group, her ballroom dancing and French conversation classes - and music above all. An accomplished pianist, she loved especially to play chamber music and four hands, and folk songs and standards with her grandchildren. She was, until her death, on the board of the Neighborhood Music School and derived great pleasure from the courses she took there: adult piano and Vintage Voices. A longtime supporter of the New Haven community, she founded "Positively New Haven", an effort to encourage Yale faculty to reside in the city and was, for nine years, the chairperson of "Books Sandwiched In," a literary series at the New Haven Free Public Library. She was a member of the Yale University Women's Organization and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Auxiliary. In addition to her beloved husband of 49 years, she is survived by her brother, Paul Goldmuntz, of Arlington, MA; her daughter, Lisa, of Brooklyn, NY, her son John, of Wellesley, MA, her son David, of Cambridge, MA; and four grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at Battell Chapel, corner of College & Elm Streets, New Haven TUESDAY morning at 11:00 o'clock with Interment Services to follow at the Grove Street Cemetery. Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Neighborhood Music School, 100 Audubon St., New Haven, CT 06510. A Period of Mourning will be observed at 95 Alden Ave., New Haven Wed. & Thurs., 10a.m.-4p.m. Funeral Arrangements in care of Robert E. Shure Funeral Home, New Haven. www.shurefuneralhome.com